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Excerpt: "Scheherazadè, the heroine of the Thousand and one Nights, ranks among the great story-tellers of the world much as does Penelope among the weavers. Procrastination was the basis of her art; for though the task she accomplished was splendid and memorable, it is rather in the quantity than the quality of her invention—in the long spun-out performance of what could have been done far more shortly—that she becomes a figure of dramatic interest. The idea which binds the stories together is greater and more romantic than the stories themselves; and though, both in the original and in translation, the diurnal interruption of their flow is more and more taken for granted, we are never quite [Pg vi]robbed of the sense that it is Scheherazadè who is speaking—Scheherazadè, loquacious and self-possessed, sitting up in bed at the renewed call of dawn to save her neck for the round of another day. Here is a figure of romance worth a dozen of the prolix stories to which it has been made sponsor; and often we may have followed the fortunes of some shoddy hero and heroine chiefly to determine at what possible point of interest the narrator could have left hanging that frail thread on which for another twenty-four hours her life was to depend."
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Fairy Tales and Folklore
Length3 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 5, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
2ILLUSTRATIONS
3THE FISHERMAN AND THE GENIE
4THE STORY OF THE KING OF THE EBONY ISLES
5ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES
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6THE STORY OF THE MAGIC HORSE
7THE STORY OF THE WICKED HALF-BROTHERS
8THE STORY OF THE PRINCESS OF DERYABAR
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